Earning Their Keep

<正>Women face gender discrimination in the job market Yi Rongrong,a postgraduate student at the Communication University of China in Beijing,describes her jobhunting process as a bumpy road, though she has a good record in the university with quite a few scholarships and internship experiences at Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily,two of the leading media organizations in China.     

Earning its Wings: a political economy analysis of China's journey toward development of the C-919 commercial airliner

This article examines China's development of its C-919 large passenger aircraft through the lens of Porter's Determinant Model. The model serves as a blueprint for analyzing what China must do to increase its probability of developing a competitive, large passenger aircraft. Success in the industry can be achieved best by developing technologically advanced aircraft and selling a sufficient number to develop economies of scale. To explore underlying questions of what China is doing right and what areas need improvement, the author interviewed key aviation professionals and sampled the limited publications on the topic in both English and Chinese.